By A new and exciting feature developed under Google’s banner is now available: Google Currents. This particular app is free and its purpose is to render a modern news reading experience. As stated by Google developers, Google Currents was designed for smartphones (iOS and Android) as well as various tablets, offering a variety of screen sizes, allowing easy digital navigation through written news, photos and videos that can be found all over the web.
In order to benefit from this app, one must download it and choose the publications to which to subscribe. Other features can be added, such as Google+, Google Reader subscriptions, RSS, various photo feeds and more. A Google ID is required in order to sync the wanted information to multiple devices one may own.
The new released news reader application may prove a strong competitor to the already-existing apps: Pulse, Zite, Yahoo Livestand, Flud and Flipboard.
After installing Google Currents, a quick and helpful tutorial is to set in motion, in order to familiarize with the features embedded and insure a better use of this app. 500px, Good and Forbes are some of the publications that are automatically available once you run Google Currents, mainly because those were selected as launch partners.
Therefore, Google Currents acts like a digital magazine-like package, storing large amounts of information, even caching it for offline viewing. For the moment, Google Currents is available only forU.S.costumers but it won’t take long until reaching other countries all over the world.